It is the official language of Norway and is classified as North-Germanic family of languages. It is considered as the descendant of old/West Norse language with significant written literature found earlier. Its roots were strengthened between 9th-14th century and later in 1814 when Norway departed from Denmark, the movement of making Norwegian resulted in two languages: Landsmål renamed as Nynorsk (New Norwegian) based on regional dialects and Riskmål renamed as Bokmål (Book language) which is primarily written language similar to Danish. Although Norwegian Bokmål is very similar to Danish language but significant differences in pronunciation and sound system exists. Norwegian Bokmål is considered simpler and more close to actual pronunciation than Danish although they may look same in writing. It is generally predicted that two varieties of Norwegian language will eventually merge however recent attempts to do so have been abandoned.
Norwegian language is estimated to be spoken by 4 million people. Norwegian grammar is quite simple. Articles and tenses of verbs are marked by suffixes while number/person of verb is not employed. Its vocabulary may look like English but the significant differences in pronunciation can be tricky. Norwegian is a pitch language which belongs to a group of languages that use variations in frequency to pronounce a word giving it a rhythmic or musical tone and different meanings of the otherwise same words.
